Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same place in your brain as aggression.
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Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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